Here’s how to check to see how many tweets in your dataset have been deleted.

Netlytic is a cloud-based social media data collector, text analyzer and social networks visualizers. It’s designed for social media researchers and educators to study public discourse on social media. [Available data sources: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, RSS Feed, or text/csv file.]

If you are using Netlytic to collect Twitter data for your research, here’s how to check to see how many tweets in your dataset have been deleted (by a user or the platform).

Once ready, save the dataset by clicking on the “CSV” button. The resulting file will include all original tweets/retweets (minus those that have been deleted either by the users or the platform). A side benefit of this process is that the original dataset is now enriched with additional metadata elements that have not been originally collected by Netlytic (such as the number of times a tweet has been retweeted).

Step 8: Once the recollection process is complete, click on the green bar to see how many tweets have been deleted from your original dataset. For example, in the sample dataset 4% of tweets have been deleted.